Stunning reminder on HIV

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Living in North America, it feels a bit like HIV and AIDS are old news. Not completely -- being connected with the queer community means you're still seeing discussions, news, and People With AIDS regularly, but it's been shunted off into a "manage it with drugs, no big whoop" column quite a bit. I have friends who have lost their friends to HIV, but I've never gone through that myself. Even a play I saw recently (Sky Gilbert's "I Have AIDS" - interesting and challenging!) approached it from this angle, not the 80s or early 90s angle.

Living somewhere else in the world, of course the situation is much different. This gripping 10min talk from TED is worth watching.